The Weasley twins, who were looking downcast, exteheir hands to Eda. Eda thought that the brothers wanted her to pull them up, so she also extended her hands.

  With a snap, the hand of friendship that Eda extended ped back by the twins.

  "What's going on?" Eda rubbed the back of her hand, now red from Fred and Gee's sp, which had inally been smooth and fair.

  "Potions homework!"

  "Transfiguration homework!"

  "This is pensation for the mental distress you've caused us!"

  The twins spoke in perfect harmony, as if they had been talking this way sihey were in the womb.

  Eda directly threw her schoolbag to Fred and asked them to find it themselves. Personally, Eda was against this kind of thing, as it was of no use to her own academic progress, though she used to be just like them.

  After finding the necessary homework, the twins began to write furiously. Ohey fiheir respective assigs, they would s their papers, w on both at the same time. This method not only saved time but also greatly increased their efficy.

  Meanwhile, Eda took out a book titled "How to Make Your Spells Hit the Target." She had found it on an inspicuous shelf in the library. The title had resonated with her, so she borrowed it despite its long-winded name.

  After reading it, Eda finally uood why the book had been gathering dust on that shelf. It was pletely useless, filled with nothing but empty words.

  pared to the book she had previously seen, "O.W.Ls and s: Five and Seven Year Editions," this one fell short. Despite both gathering dust in a er, the "Five-Seven" book was genuinely valuable, taining real exam questions that were like a treasure trove fwarts students.

  The number of people in the on room gradually dwindled, and the crag of the fire in the firepce became more pronounced.

  Fred, feeling a burst of creativity, rubbed his sore wrist and said, "I'd rather spend time with Filch than write another potions essay." He had just finished copying the homework and ha back to Eda.

  "Adorable but annoying Filch!" Gee, who had also just finished, chimed in, "pared to Snape, Filch is nothing."

  With a snap, Eda closed "How to Make Your Spells Hit the Target" and said to the Weasley twins, "You two should be grateful. At least you have homework to copy."

  "This isn't copying! It's refereng!" Gee said with exaggerated indignation.

  "We're just using it to spark inspiration and guide our thoughts," Fred added. "We don't want to waste our limited lives on endless homework. It's meaningless!"

  If you two were any more sincere, I might actually believe you, Eda thought, rolling her eyes.

  Eda reached out and rubbed her sore neck before asking the two, "So, what do you think is meaningful? Pying nicely with Filch, hiding around ers to scare little kids, or turning your little brother's toy into an ugly spider?"

  "We were just pying a joke on Ron..." Fred said, his pyful expression fading.

  "We just didn't gauge it properly..." Gee added, looking a bit embarrassed.

  The prank had left a signifit psychological scar on their little brother, Ron. The toy he had been holding suddenly transformed inte, crawling spider—a truly terrifying experience.

  May Merlin protect Ron Weasley from ever entering spiders again! Especially giant ones!

  "How about we sneak out at night ime?" Gee tried to ge the subject, albeit awkwardly.

  Fred quickly backed up his brother, saying, "An a castle, silent ay at night, doesn't that intrigue you, Eda?"

  [You have received a team invitation from the Weasley twins for a night tour of Hogwarts. Accept √, Dee ×.]

  "You guys were just caught retly, and you're already pnning to get into trouble again?" Eda deed the invitation from the Weasley twins. She inteo y low for a while and not go anywhere.

  "ime, I said ime..." Fred looked at Eda as if she was slow to uand.

  "Not today, not tomorrow, but ime, whenever we pn anht tee expined patiently, as if talking to a small child.

  "Uh... I mean that there's no the near future. Filch will definitely be keeping a closer eye on you," Eda said, trying to salvage her pride. "And you 't lose any more points. If this keeps up, even with Charlie's good temper, he won't be able to take it. He'll tell Mrs. Weasley."

  At the mention of their mother, Fred and Gee instinctively toned down their expressions. The kind woman was quite terrifying when it came to disciplining her children.

  "Charlie won't. He's not Percy," Gee said, though there was a hint of uainty in his voice.

  "I think a lot of people talk about us losing points, but you—Esmeralda Twist—have nht!" Fred shook his fi Eda.

  "I... I made up the points I lost!" Eda retorted, though her tone was not very fident since she had lost a few points retly.

  "Really?" Fred extended his fio start ting. "Let's not eveion the fighting i; we'll let that one slide."

  Eda nodded in agreement, as that i involved everyone and was sidered a collective first-year penalty.

  "Several times entering the Restricted Se of the library without permission, ign the library's closing hours... Madam Pince, who could no loolerate it, reported these is to Professonagall. Points deducted, right?" Gee raised his right hand, straightening his fingers, a his thumb after he finished speaking.

  "Using magi empty s and corridors, caught by Filch—points deducted!" Fred also raised his right hand, bending his fingers as he started ting Eda's infras.

  "In the greenhouse, ing to properly care for the herb pnts because of daydreaming, points deducted by Professor Sprout! She likes you so much, a you always let her down," Gee said while l his right index finger.

  Feeling like she was being painted as a "heartbreaker," Eda shamefully lowered her head. Though she felt sorry for disappointing Professor Sprout, she truly had no i in taking care of pnts.

  "In the dungeon , talking back to the professor, points deducted by Snape, and not just once!" Fred also lowered his index finger and emphasized Snape's name and the phrase "not just oo irritate Eda.

  The twins took turns listing Eda's "crimes" sihe beginning of the school year, defting her arrogance.

  Eda stared at her toes, saying nothing. If her skin weren't already thiough, she might have started fidgeting by now.

  "Do you want us to tihe Weasley twins asked. Normally, Eda was always posed and fident; this was the first time they saw her like this.

  "Uh... no... no need..." Eda squeezed out the words with great difficulty, g her fists. This was so embarrassing!

  "Do you know what the other students call the three of us?" Fred asked.

  "The Dedu Trio!" Gee blurted out the answer because he knerobably didn't know. She had no friends and didn't like making friends.

  Eda was more of a loner, more aced to fag everything alone.

  "I inally po earn back the points you two lost, but now it seems I might not even earn back my own share..." Eda said, looking up at the ceiling of the on room helplessly.

  She hadn't realized it before, but upon calg, she was shocked to find that she could be pared to the twins. Although the points Eda had lost weren't as numerous as ryffindors, she was still far behind the twins. What did this prove? It proved that Fred and Gee were ihe ultimate legends!

  "I suggest you give up on that idea," Fred said.

  "Haven't you noticed that ever since you got detention from Professonagall," Gee said.

  "You've beore and more uninhibited?" The twins finished in unison.

  The Weasley brothers didn't mention it, but Eda hadn't realized this herself. Before her detention, she hadn't lost a single point, but after that... well, it was better not to mention it.

  "I will trol myself and not let anyo any more points from me!" Eda decred, but pared to as, words always felt weak.

  "Halloween is ing up soon. Do you have any es in mind?" Fred asked.

  "We're pnning to make two pumpkin heads," Gee said.

  "Pumpkin heads? Where are you going to get pumpkins?" Eda asked, puzzled.

  Thinking about it, it was indeed almost Halloween. Without realizing it, Eda had already been at Hogwarts for two months. The orphanage had never held e parties on Halloween, so Eda didn't have much of an impression of the holiday, aside from the phrase "trick or treat."

  "Of course, from Hagrid, the gamekeeper. He's growy of pumpkins."

  "We've already arra with him."

  To prepare for the Hallowee, Hagrid had pnted many pumpkins, some of which were as big as small huts.

  Eda actually knew about these. She had seen Hagrid's pumpkins and even thought that if Hagrid sold his fertilizer in the Muggle world, he might make a good profit. She was just thinking about other things and hadn't made the e right away.

  "When did you two get on such good terms with Hagrid? I had no idea," Eda stretched zily. She was feeling sleepy and her mind was a bit sluggish.

  "We've always had a good retionship with him; you just didn't know about it."

  "It's because you're always running off to the library," Gee said. "If you haven't decided yet, how about dressing up as Jack with us?"

  The Weasley brothers once again invited Eda to joieam.

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